Ashtakoot Guna Milan · Pair
Mula and Uttara Bhadrapada nakshatra matching
26.5–29.5 of 36 with Mula as bride, 22.5–25.5 with Uttara Bhadrapada as bride — then computed again for all sixteen pada combinations.
Mula: Adi (Vata) nadi · Dog yoni · Rakshasa gana | Uttara Bhadrapada: Madhya (Pitta) nadi · Cow yoni · Manushya gana
Mula as bride
26.5–29.5
of 36
Uttara Bhadrapada as bride
22.5–25.5
of 36
Across all padas
26.5
one answer
Mula and Uttara Bhadrapada come to 26.5–29.5 of 36 with Mula on the bride's side and 22.5–25.5 with Uttara Bhadrapada on it. What sits behind those two figures: Varna, Graha Maitri, Bhakoot and Nadi score in full, while Gana (3 of 6), Tara (1.5 of 3), Yoni (1–3 of 4) and Vashya (0–1 of 2) do not, and Gana on its own accounts for 3 of the guna that go missing.
All sixteen combinations give the same answer. Neither star crosses a boundary of any kind between its padas, so the totals below are the whole result and the birth times only need to be accurate enough to fix the nakshatra. This pair is one of the 120 of 351 where that is true.
Koota by Koota
Pada 1 on each side, and what every koota is reading for Mula with Uttara Bhadrapada. Varna and Gana are the two directional tests, which is why each name gets a column: Varna and Gana differ between them.
| Koota | Mula bride | Uttara Bhadrapada bride | What it reads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Varna / 1 | 1 | 0 | Uttara Bhadrapada: Brahmin · Mula: Kshatriya |
| Vashya / 2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | Uttara Bhadrapada: Jalachar · Mula: Manav |
| Tara / 3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | Counting from Mula: Mitra (8) · from Uttara Bhadrapada: Vipat (3) |
| Yoni / 4 | 1–3 | 1–3 | Uttara Bhadrapada: Cow · Mula: Dog |
| Graha Maitri / 5 | 5 | 5 | Uttara Bhadrapada: Jupiter · Mula: Jupiter |
| Gana / 6 | 3 | 0 | Uttara Bhadrapada: Manushya · Mula: Rakshasa |
| Bhakoot / 7 | 7 | 7 | Pisces and Sagittarius — 4/10 |
| Nadi / 8 | 8 | 8 | Uttara Bhadrapada: Madhya (Pitta) · Mula: Adi (Vata) |
| Total / 36 | 26.5–29.5 | 22.5–25.5 | Good |
- Gana, 3 of 6 — Uttara Bhadrapada: Manushya · Mula: Rakshasa. Directional: swap the partners and the same two ganas score differently.
- Tara, 1.5 of 3 — Counting from Mula: Mitra (8) · from Uttara Bhadrapada: Vipat (3). One count of the two is inauspicious and the other is not, which halves the koota.
- Yoni, 1–3 of 4 — Uttara Bhadrapada: Cow · Mula: Dog. Not the same animal, not a hostile pair, so the graded middle.
- Vashya, 0–1 of 2 — Uttara Bhadrapada: Jalachar · Mula: Manav. Neither the same group nor the agreed zero, so the graded middle where lineages differ.
Half-guna figures are exact rather than rounded. Each koota’s rule is set out in full on Mula’s table and Uttara Bhadrapada’s.
All Sixteen Pada Combinations
Mula runs Sagittarius 0°00′ – 13°20′ and Uttara Bhadrapada runs Pisces 3°20′ – 16°40′ — two arcs 13°20′ wide, each divided into four padas of 3°20′, which puts the two Moons anywhere between 80°00′ and 106°40′ apart. Every cell below holds two totals: Mula as bride first, Uttara Bhadrapada as bride second. All sixteen read alike, so the padas can be left out of this one.
| Mula ↓ / Uttara Bhadrapada → | Pada 1Pisces | Pada 2Pisces | Pada 3Pisces | Pada 4Pisces |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1Sagittarius | 26.5 / 22.5 | 26.5 / 22.5 | 26.5 / 22.5 | 26.5 / 22.5 |
| Pada 2Sagittarius | 26.5 / 22.5 | 26.5 / 22.5 | 26.5 / 22.5 | 26.5 / 22.5 |
| Pada 3Sagittarius | 26.5 / 22.5 | 26.5 / 22.5 | 26.5 / 22.5 | 26.5 / 22.5 |
| Pada 4Sagittarius | 26.5 / 22.5 | 26.5 / 22.5 | 26.5 / 22.5 | 26.5 / 22.5 |
Strict reading of the two disputed kootas throughout. The generous reading of Yoni and Vashya adds 3 guna to every cell. All sixteen combinations clear the conventional threshold of 18. Dimmed cells fall below it; the nakshatra finder returns the pada from a birth date, time and place.
The Two Doshas, and Whether They Are Cancelled
Fifteen of the 36 guna sit in these two, and both are all-or-nothing. Their cancellations are stated specifically enough to be checked for Mula and Uttara Bhadrapada rather than guessed at.
Nadi Koota — 8 of 8
Mula is Adi (Vata) and Uttara Bhadrapada is Madhya (Pitta). Different nadis take the full eight guna, and since Nadi alone is more than a fifth of the total, this pair starts from a position 108 of the 351 pairs never reach.
Bhakoot Koota — 7 of 7 at pada 1
Pisces and Sagittarius — 4/10 — outside the three forbidden distances of 6/8, 5/9 and 2/12, and it stays outside them in all sixteen pada combinations. Bhakoot is full at seven throughout.
A cancellation is relief, not a score adjustment — the koota still reads zero above. The doshas Ashtakoot does not test for are a separate question — Mangal dosha among them.
Two Tests Outside the 36
The South Indian reckoning runs to ten kootas, and two of the extras are counts between Mula and Uttara Bhadrapada alone — so they can be given here and checked by hand.
- Mahendra — absent. Mahendra wants every third star from the fourth — 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25 — and Mula to Uttara Bhadrapada is 8. The two counts always add to 29, so a Mahendra pair holds whichever way round the match is made.
- Stri-Dirgha — satisfied one way. This one is directional in earnest: 8 from Mula and 21 from Uttara Bhadrapada, against a threshold sources give as seven or as nine. It holds with Uttara Bhadrapada as the bride and not with Mula.
Neither test touches the 36. Muhurta nature is a different question again — Mula is Tikshna (sharp), Uttara Bhadrapada is Dhruva / Sthira (fixed) — and it governs what each star suits doing, not who it marries.
How the Pair Ranks on Each Side
A total carries meaning against the alternatives rather than on its own, and the alternatives differ for the two stars: 26.5 of 36 puts Uttara Bhadrapada 5th among Mula's 27 possible partners and Mula 4th among Uttara Bhadrapada's, both on the pada-1 figures those two tables print.
In Mula’s table
5th of 27
Uttara Bhadrapada scores 26.5 there, level with 1 other partner. Mula’s 27 partners run from 11 to 30 with a median of 21, so this one sits above the middle of what Mula can reach — all 27 rows.
In Uttara Bhadrapada’s table
4th of 27
Mula scores 26.5 there, level with 1 other partner. Uttara Bhadrapada’s 27 partners run from 13 to 32 with a median of 21.5, so this one sits above the middle of what Uttara Bhadrapada can reach — all 27 rows.
What This Total Is Not
Across every pairing of two Moon positions that can exist, 63.6% clear 18 and the median total is 20.5, so clearing the conventional bar is the ordinary result rather than a distinction. The ceiling is 35, not 36 — no pairing of Mula and Uttara Bhadrapada or of anything else reaches a perfect score, and a site reporting one has added something to the arithmetic.
Written rather than computed, and worth the longer read: the 36 guna taken one koota at a time and what the Navamsa adds that Guna Milan cannot. The full profiles of the two stars — deities, symbols, temperament, the syllables used for naming — are on the Mula page and the Uttara Bhadrapada page.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Run It On the Real Padas
The score is settled for Mula and Uttara Bhadrapada, but the doshas, the seventh house and the running dasha are not — and those are what a chart is for.
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